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  Wife's FS report for last month... Zero!

  by Captain Obvious in

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  i could just be reading too far into this but... even with plenty of opportunities and time to go, she didn't seem to make it out last month.

  last night she said she was gonna go out today (the 1st) but... she's downstairs at the moment sipping coffee watching tv.

  a few weeks ago on the long drive back from the assembly we talked about fs.

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  This is just a thought from a never was dub.

  WT (and Mormons) could double their coverage if they really wanted to by sending out their people on their own (just as, here, door knockers selling telecoms packages, chugging for charities, etc., do).

  I assume (being cynical) that the reason they go in pairs is just in case a dub on FS meets someone who could talk to them and challenge their beliefs. The 'partner' dub is there to prevent that. If my assumption is correct, that says someting about the dubs - about their knowledge and confidence in their faith.
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  If there is a creator, will an expanding universe ever become bigger than he?

  by prologos in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the bible has expressions like: "--god walked in the garden at the breezy part of the day--" .

  but more realisticly, speaking in today's lingo:.

  if, as accepted by consensus, the universe was "smaller" in the past, expanding out of a zero size singularity, it was "smaller" than the "creator"* at that point in time.

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  " it was "smaller" than the "Creator"* at that point in time. point in every way."

  There's a problem in that assumption, as in this one " If He existed before the physical universe, where did He live?".

  If one believes in a supernatural creator then one must also believe that he/she/it didn't have to be of a certain size or 'live' anywhere.

  In the world of the supernatural anything which is imagineable is possible (and everything that isn't). That's the whole point of the supernatural.
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  Here's a cute joke...

  by ohiocowboy in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i thought that this was cute so i wanted to share.... .

  a stalk of broccoli says "i look like a small tree"!.

  a mushroom looks around and says "i look like an umbrella"!.

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  Joe Grundy

  Well, this is appropriate for me as a grumpy old git in the madcap run-up to Xmas:

  'I don't care who you are, fatty - get that sleigh off my roof'.
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  If there is a creator, will an expanding universe ever become bigger than he?

  by prologos in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the bible has expressions like: "--god walked in the garden at the breezy part of the day--" .

  but more realisticly, speaking in today's lingo:.

  if, as accepted by consensus, the universe was "smaller" in the past, expanding out of a zero size singularity, it was "smaller" than the "creator"* at that point in time.

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  Joe Grundy

  I understand that not only is the universe expanding but the rate at which it is expanding is increasing. Which means that at some point the rest of the universe will be too far away for us to see. Now that's a thought ...
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  The Teaching of Evolution in UK Schools Mandatory

  by Joe Grundy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  link to news story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20547195 (sorry, don't know how to make it 'clickable').. i, for one, am glad to see that this has been clarified.

  is it the same in the us?.

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  Link to news story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20547195 (sorry, don't know how to make it 'clickable').

  I, for one, am glad to see that this has been clarified. Is it the same in the US?
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  A Mormon becomes a JW in the Feb 2013 Watchtower...

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  glancing through the feb 2013 "public" watchtower edition, an interesting article appears on page 8.. here is the pdf download link.... http://www.jw.org/download/?fileformat=pdf&issue=20130201&output=html&pub=wp&langwritten=e&option=trgchlzrqvnyvrxf&txtcmslang=e.

  it's interesting how, in the story, the young man's jw aunt and uncle switch him from mormonism to the jw faith using third-party material (the nov 8, 1995 awake!

  article), and he ends up becoming a jw after confirming on the official mormon website that the claims in the awake!

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  Thanks!
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  A Mormon becomes a JW in the Feb 2013 Watchtower...

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  glancing through the feb 2013 "public" watchtower edition, an interesting article appears on page 8.. here is the pdf download link.... http://www.jw.org/download/?fileformat=pdf&issue=20130201&output=html&pub=wp&langwritten=e&option=trgchlzrqvnyvrxf&txtcmslang=e.

  it's interesting how, in the story, the young man's jw aunt and uncle switch him from mormonism to the jw faith using third-party material (the nov 8, 1995 awake!

  article), and he ends up becoming a jw after confirming on the official mormon website that the claims in the awake!

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  Joe Grundy

  This is an interesting article about the Mormons' 'Book of Abraham' and comments on their progress towards 'mainstream:

  http://richarddawkins.net/foundation_articles/2012/10/23/mormonism-in-the-mainstream#.ULNF3u_6msM

  (Sorry, don't know how to make the link 'clickable'.
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  Religious Genital Mutilation

  by Joe Grundy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i never was a jw.

  i am an atheist.

  (i keep introducing my posts that way, but it's for the avoidance of doubt).. on an entirely different mb, someone just raised the issue of fgm.

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  Joe Grundy

  Thank you.

  This is an issue which I don't think we should overlook, however 'politically incorrect' it may be.

  I will be writing to my newly-elected 'Police and Crime Commissioner' but I don't expect any great response.

  In the meantime, here I am. To those who promulgate FGM - I condemn you, and if you do it in the name of your god, I condemn him as well.

  I am Chris Pope, of 27 Tudor Way, Haverfordwest, Pembs., Do your worst, I defy you.
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  Religious Genital Mutilation

  by Joe Grundy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i never was a jw.

  i am an atheist.

  (i keep introducing my posts that way, but it's for the avoidance of doubt).. on an entirely different mb, someone just raised the issue of fgm.

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  Joe Grundy

  And, of course, it's so difficult (politically incorect) to question, let alone criticise, anything done in the name of religion.

  Well, here I stand. I absolutely condemn this practice. I condemn Allah or whoever condones this. I say that you are child abusers in the worst way. Am I allowed here to publish my name and address? Happy to do so against this vile practice.
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  Religious Genital Mutilation

  by Joe Grundy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i never was a jw.

  i am an atheist.

  (i keep introducing my posts that way, but it's for the avoidance of doubt).. on an entirely different mb, someone just raised the issue of fgm.

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  Joe Grundy

  "Damage done to children---babies----no consent required."

  No, that's not quite right. Sadly, and in a life I'm glad to be away from, babies were abused. I never came across a case of FGM but if I had then believe me the abusers would have been arrested. (one benefit of being a UK cop, you hold power under the Crown under a personal oath and nobody but nobody can interfere with that).